SOUTHLAND: BRIEFLY : LAUSD CONSIDERS DIOXIN RISK SLIGHT.Fried chicken fed to local schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school this year may have contained slight traces of a suspected carcinogen carcinogen: see cancer. carcinogen Agent that can cause cancer. Exposure to one or more carcinogens, including certain chemicals, radiation, and certain viruses, can initiate cancer under conditions not completely understood. , but not at dangerous levels, according to an internal district memo. A memo delivered to school board members last week revealed that 650 cases of chicken possibly tainted with dioxin dioxin Aromatic compound, any of a group of contaminants produced in making herbicides (e.g., Agent Orange), disinfectants, and other agents. Their basic chemical structure consists of two benzene rings connected by a pair of oxygen atoms; when substituents on the rings are were delivered to 77 Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. cafeterias in October and February. Schools are being notified not to use any remaining in their freezers - although a second memo released Friday indicated that all but part of one case had been served. Federal officials do not consider the low level of dioxin a health risk. ``This was a very low level, a very low-key thing,'' Margaret Webb, spokeswoman for the Food Safety and Inspection Service The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is charged with ensuring that all meat, poultry, and processed egg products in the United States are safe to consume and accurately labeled. of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said of the chicken. ?13Associated Press Pathfinder Rover barrels over rocks The Mars Pathfinder rover freed itself from the grasp of two rocks and began a plodding course for a rock nicknamed Shark, which scientists expect the rover will reach today, officials said. NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. scientists commanded Sojourner to leave the rocks that had stopped it cold when the rover's on-board hazard detection system sensed the rover's suspension was too tilted Thursday. Images downloaded via satellite ``confirmed Sojourner has pulled away and left these rocks in the dust,'' Carl Steiner of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. said Friday in his report summing up the mission's 42nd day on Mars. ?13Associated Press Graffiti restored at park in Venice With police officers looking on, dozens of young men wielding spray paint cans walked into a Venice park Saturday and convened an all-day graffiti binge that celebrated what some call art and others vandalism. The city gave its blessing to the event that organizers referred to as a ``restoration of the Graffiti Pit.'' They issued a permit allowing the artists to blast away with spray paint for one day only. The ``paint-out'' marked a reversion of the Venice Pavilion to its former state, one that resembled a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of subway of the 1970s more than a tidy park. In January, an anti-gang group covered up the graffiti on walls, tables, chairs and sidewalks with battleship-gray paint. Since then it has been marred by lackluster ``tags'' marking territory. ?13Associated Press News |
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